The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-10-27
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On the 9th day of April, 1867, the
civil war closed by Lee surrendering to
Grant at AppOm2tOx Court House, and
when the Southern commander said
y at he forgot to mention in the terms
of surrender that several of menhis
rode their own horses; Grant in a spirit
of unparalleled generositYsaid, "Tell
Your men to take your hogses, go home
nd 80 to plowing." The South after
four years of bloody conflict, were van
quished by a powerful foe, and thew
calmly laid downftheir arms in humble
subiection and TRANQUILITY suecumbed to
to the viii of an Omnipotent being.
Twenty-Five years have now passed
since the war has closed, and yet a few
brawling Republicans are disposed to
keep alive the dying embers of fac
tiOnal strife. 1t was not an uncommon
thing shortly after the war, for the Re-
publican party to fight their battles on
the sectional issue. But some of the
more conservative element, refusing to
follow their party in its insane attempt
to renew sectional strife, openly
and defiantly bolted General Grant in
872 and nominated Horace Greedy on =
the questions settled by the 18th, 14th
and 18th Amendments to the Constitu-
ton. He was afterwards indOrsed by
the Democrats and had he been electe1,
the last vestige of animOsity, enmity
and suspicion would have been etfaced
and the two sections welded together
into one common brotherhood, as 81
cred as truth and as enduring as time.
But in no State has this sectional
howl been kept up as much as in Ohio.
Two years ago the campaign was open
ed by Senator Sherman in an undignl-
fie6 speech full of hate and animos-
ity, and Foraker lashed himself into q
fury in trying to tear open the wounds
of the war. The campaign was nothing
but a sectional TRADE made upon the
Southern people from the opening to
the close. After Foraker was elected,
Sherman believed that it was his ill
timed sectional appeals that did the
business, and he and Foraker immedi-
atolv packed their grip-sacks and start
ed for New York to help elect Demo
cratic Governor. With the dying words
of the nations hero for harmony be-
tween the sections yet ringing in
the ears of the people, Foraker
and Sherman's incendiary speeches
were about rs fatal to Republican sue
cess as dipping a smallpox invalid into
cold water would be fatal to the patient.
A more indiscreet move could not have
been made, and it was a potent factor
in the election of David B. Hill to the
Goyernorship of New York.
Last year the campaign was opened
and carried on with the continuous
waving of the bloody shirt. Sherman
beran by traducing the Democratic
candidate for Secretary of State for not
enlisting in the army. But Mr.. Nc
Bride had the misfortune to be born as
late as 1854, and was not yet seven years
old when the war broke out. Yet Sher-
man characterized him as being dis
loyal, and proclaimed upon the stump
throughout the Buckeye State that Mr..
Robinson was q gallant soldier in the
Union army, and entitled to the sup
port of Grand Amy Democrats.
This year the bloody shirt was first
flung to the breeze at Toledo, and the
campaign was opened with the same
thunderous Outcry by FOraker's address
to the convention, attacking the
President in speech so coarse and in
decent that it had to be suppressed in
the revised report given to the news
papers. He accused Cleveland Of be-
ing unpatriolic because he h d not the
courage to go to the army and fight 13
battles as he did. But while it fell to
Cleveland's lot TO stay home and care
for his widowed mother, his three
brothers enlisted in behalf Of the union
cause, and two OF them never came
back. But Foraker in bis own inflated
self-conceit, refers to 10 ones bravery
but his own, and the Chivalric eXhibi
ton Of human yalor displayed by Gen
eral Hancock az Gettysburg, who led a
despairing and demoralized army to
successful battle that broke the back
bone of the rebellion, is not to be COM
pared to the heroic actions of Foraker in
the mind of the freuzied Ohio Repub-
Lean